"Bakou Kurae! Bakou Kurae! Devour, oh Bakou, devour my evil dream!..."
"When one wakes up from a nightmare or a bad dream, one must quickly repeat this invocation three times. Bakou will devour the bad dream and turn misfortune and fear into good fortune and joy."

The heroes of Lefkadios Hern come from the realm of the terrifying and the paradoxical: the blind man who made the dead cry, the man-shark who shed rubies instead of tears, the painting that lost its colors when separated from its owner, the vampire who had penetrated the depths of the waters, and the handy Bakou who ate the bad dreams...